Books by Anne Michaels
“It’s a complex book in lots of different ways. It’s heavily layered. It’s probably the hardest book to summarise, because it has so many tentacles, and they connect in ways that aren’t expected. It’s the least linear narrative of all the books we’ve chosen for the shortlist. At the same time, there’s a beautiful, poetic interconnectedness to all the different chapters and timeframes. The events kind of connect each of the stories and individuals together.” Read more...
The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist
Nitin Sawhney, Musicians, Music Critics & Scholar
Interviews where books by Anne Michaels were recommended
Award-Winning Novels of 2024, recommended by Cal Flyn
If you struggle to keep abreast of notable new novels, it can be helpful to check the consult a list of winners of recent literary awards. The juries of major prizes often wade through dozens or even hundreds of submissions when they put together their shortlists, and are therefore well placed to offer informed recommendations. Here, we’ve put together an easy to consult round-up of novels that won big literary awards in 2024.
The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Nitin Sawhney
Every year, the £50,000 Booker Prize is awarded to a work of fiction newly published in English. We spoke to the composer Nitin Sawhney, one of this year’s judges, about their search for a shortlist, and why these six books—including the winning title, Samantha Harvey’s space station novel Orbital—are the best novels of 2024.
